Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "" video.

Unions can't really do anything about layoffs other than have in the contract that it's to be done by seniority. A layoff means the company is decreasing the workforce due to money issues. Completely different than getting fired which is what Unions protect you from. You got laid off because you were lower on the totem pole having only been there 2 years.
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There aren't other jobs available. They're just mooching off their parents.
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McDonald's was minimum wage. That was $3.25 in the 80s. The jobs we did were side jobs. Mowing lawns, babysitting, etc. Nothing was stopping you from doing that. You put up fliers and talk to neighbors. Nobody was hiring us because it was illegal until 16 except for a paper route which would be your neighborhood on your bike. 1 kid out of 20 would maybe have that. It was usually adults though with cars. My grandfather and grandmother did it as a side job for years. Once 16 you worked stocking at the grocery store or another local store or at the movie theater. My kids are Gen Z and lots of their friends had after school jobs. We lived in a rural area. Edit: I looked it up. Minimum wage wouldn't be equivalent to $50 today. It's 9.85, and I haven't seen a single job that starts below $10 and an hour. My husband makes $50 an hour. No minimum wage job was earning you what would be $150,000 a year today.
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I'm Gen X. We perfected working hard at not working. Look like you're working, but not really. This generation can't even try to pretend.
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@Slick9600 You shouldn't have your phones out at school anyway. Nobody was allowed to leave for lunch in the 80s either. We talked between classes and at lunch. Not in class. The no sharing food is because if someone has a severe allergy it opens the school up to a lawsuit. Every school I went to had fences and a metal detector. That was the 80s.
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Do you think because they've accumulated stuff over the years they're immune to inflation? I don't know what fmla is. I should hope after they've worked their entire life they have something to show for it.
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Cooked isn't a new term. Baked is something completely different and also not new. Baked means stoned. Cooked means screwed.
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@divamoosic Then they can move there and mooch off you. You can hold their hand and explain in extreme detail how to clean the toilet. Step by step, standing over them, every time it needs to be done. That's what this comment is saying which you claim is great.
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 @JunjiItoDougWalker Yes. Why should they have any pride in themselves.
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People worked longer and harder generations ago and had a lot of children. That's not it. It's selfishness. It's not even a US thing. It's pretty much global except in 3rd world countries. The more luxury we have and the easier our lives are, the less children we have. It's the mouse utopia experiment. It's worse in Japan and Korea.
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Gen X know how to use a can opener. Most of us used the manual kind. That's how we fed ourselves while our parents were at work.
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That's not new. At your age I was working 8-5 except 1 day where I worked 4am-5 pm because I had to do backup and print statements. I was making $5 an hour, barely above minimum wage, in a medical office doing data entry. My car payment and insurance took almost an entire check. It was the cheapest new car available at $10,000. Base model.
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@JunjiItoDougWalker Look back at the percentage of the population that owned homes at your age in those generations. You'll fine out, they didn't either. You think getting injured on the job was an entitlement? Look how many died to workplace accidents during the Great Depression. Most of them on government jobs. You think getting drafted was an entitlement? Gen X grew up with higher inflation and interest rates so no groceries and housing weren't affordable. We had roomates. We had the most violent period in history outside of a war. How is that an intact (one word) society? Job security? That's when all the manufacturing went to China. We had to completely rebuild the economy and change it. Most employers are small businesses, not "corpos." I've never worked for a large corporation in my life. My husband just went to work for one 4 years ago after working 15 years for a small refinery. I don't know who you think got all this wonderful stuff starting out except in your fantasy of what it was like. Edit: A lot of ya'll like to point to the 50s. Only around 40% of the population owned a home. It's about 65% today. How was that better exactly?
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Your basically saying your dad was a bum who couldn't figure out anything. There's a difference between trying and doing your best. If I half heartedly try something I'm not going to succeed at it.
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Same! I love seeing them constantly complaining like it's never happened before.
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